Peter Wohlleben

Peter Wohlleben is a German forester and author born in 1964 in Bonn, who studied forestry and worked over twenty years as a civil servant in the forestry commission before founding a Forest Academy for ecological forest management.[1][2][3] He gained international acclaim with his New York Times bestseller The Hidden Life of Trees, which explores plant communication and sentience in accessible language, followed by books like The Inner Life of Animals and The Heartbeat of Trees.[1][4][5] Wohlleben advocates for tree conservation and has sold millions of books worldwide.[3][5]